And yet an other boost for KM3NeT

Important upgrade of the deep-sea infrastructure of KM3NeT- It

The new cable termination frame and the new junction boxes at 3500 m depth.

20th July 2015: In the morning of 20th July 2015, an important upgrade of the deep-sea infrastructure of KM3NeT-It was successfully concluded. During a sea campaign that started three days earlier the old termination frame at the deep sea end of the 100 km long main cable to shore was replaced by a new one and two junction boxes were installed.

This major upgrade of the seafloor network at a depth of 3500 m was necessary to allow for the installation of a large number of detection units of the KM3NeT telescope. The first detection units are expected to be connected to the new junction boxes later this year.

Interested to join KM3NeT?

The Collaboration invites new members

23rd May 2015: The KM3NeT Collaboration invites interested scientists to join the effort of building and operating the new generation neutrino telescope in the deep seas of the Mediterranean. Currently, the Collaboration is constructing the first phase of the detector. In the Strategy Document you can read about the plans of the Collaboration for the next step, i.e.
realising the high-energy ARCA detector at the KM3NeT-It site and the low-energy ORCA detector at the KM3NeT-Fr site.

€15 million boost for European astronomy

Launch of EU funded ASTERICS project

1st May 2015: Astronomers and astroparticle physicists today are celebrating a €15 million EU funding boost for European telescopes with the launch of the ASTERICS project (Astronomy ESFRI and Research Infrastructure Cluster), which will help solve the Big Data challenges of European astronomy and give members of the public direct interactive access to some of the best of Europe.s astronomy images and data.
Press release...

Again an important step for KM3NeT

First seafloor network node of KM3NeT-Fr installed

The node in the lab of CPPM. Note the titanium vessel inside and the sockets at the upper bar.

27/04/2015: In the early morning of 27th April 2015, the first node of the seafloor network at the KM3NeT-Fr site was successfully installed. This is again an important step in the realisation of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope.
During this April campaign, the node was connected to the 40 km long electro-optical cable which connects the network to the shore station. This cable was already deployed during the December campaign of last year.

The heart of the node is an egg-shaped titanium vessel with electronics and photonics and sufficient sockets to plug in the cables coming from the many detection units to be anchored on the seabed. The first detection unit is expected to be connected later this year.

KM3NeT 2.0

The next phase: ARCA and ORCA

01/02/2015: KM3NeT has defined the next step in the realisation of the research infrastructure in the deep seas of the Mediterranean: KM3NeT2.0
to conduct Astroparticle & Oscillations Resreach with Cosmics in the Abyss
with ARCA and ORCA.

The Collaboration is expanding

Morocco joins KM3NeT

24/02/2015: On 24 February, during the KM3NeT Collaboration meeting in Valencia, the
Laboratory of Physics Matter and Radiations (LPMR) of the
Mohammed 1st University in Oujda formally joined the KM3NeT Collaboration. Focus of the group will be at the search for monolpoles and physics with the low energy ORCA detector in KM3NeT-Fr.
With LPMR, the KM3NeT Collaboration now counts 42 institutes in 12 countries. The total number of scientists in the Collaboration is about 240.